>The introduction of massive swaths of idiots to the internet via smartphones and the organizations that cater to them.
I prefer idiots and geniuses than the cattle in between.
The inbetween demographic drives me fricking nuts the most. I'd prefer to be surrounded by elves or orcs than the moronic ant like things we call "humans".
Although I will admit, I wish orcs were actually sexy. Not even all of them, just the females or something.
Pretty much all of the games in that pic will run on Windows 10/11 (most without patches/tweaks). It would be different if they were MS-DOS titles that need DOSBox to run these days.
I still keep a Win98 laptop around for nostalgia purposes, but there's not much actual use for it.
That's part of the reason you don't see as many big "releases" like pic related anymore. The average normie doesn't get excited at all about software, and we only get a little bit excited. I work on an Agile project and it's pretty boring.
>You just got old >No, it's objectively worse!
Generation before that: >You just got old >No, it's objectively worse!
Generation before that: >You just got old >No, it's objectively worse!
Not talking about computers specifically but this shit keeps happening, people get older and feel like things have turned to shit
Things actually are getting worse though. I can recognize that my parents and grandparents in the 60s had it even better than me, and the generation after me is going to have it even worse than me. If you can't see how much things are deteriorating with every new generation something is wrong with you.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Sure... And they'll keep saying it a thousand years from now
2 years ago
Anonymous
And it will still be true
2 years ago
Anonymous
>things were better when you had no running water or refrigeration just trust me dude
2 years ago
Anonymous
Unparalleled amounts of leisure time.
Complete autonomy, without responding to governments or any other institution.
Abundance of delicious natural food.
Yes, they lived better lives. There are advantages to the modern world, but "a better life" is not one of them
2 years ago
Anonymous
Oh, I see, you huffed the "old times that never happened" farts, lol.
Peope were grinding it out with the government on their backs, eating shit food back then, too, stupid. Stop think advertising illustrations Madison Avenue was using to sell a lifestyle that didn't exist to the working class.
I know you autists are fricking moronic, but do you have to dig new depths every fricking hour?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>staged pictures vs reality
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Things actually are getting worse though.
Subjective.
I like the tech/bioengineered horror we're in now.
It's fricking refreshing.
Horrifying, but at least it's not a mere rusty cage like the 70s to 10s. It's more of a corroded butchery now.
I just can't wait for the Otherworld to finally open and swallow us all whole. It's gonna be great.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Black folk everywhere >subjective
2 years ago
Anonymous
Depends, I like Caribbean vodou mamas and the west indies.
But I will admit Africa drains my soul with it's corrosive nature on our society. It's a fricking abyss dragging us all in now.
2 years ago
Anonymous
late stage capitalism
2 years ago
Anonymous
How is it worse for you? You have more opportunity, more access to pretty much anything, you have what to them would be a supercomputer in your pocket, and you're gonna sit there like a little b***h and cry about nostagia that isn't even reality?
LOL. You're such a fricking loser.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Those supercomputers are locked down to only run software that's allowed by the company who makes them. That kind of thing was unheard of in the 90s. Computing today is not very different to how it was in the 1960s with mainframes owned by IBM. We've regressed very far in the last 10 years.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Oh, look, someone who supeglued themselves to the pity pot, lol.
If life is so bad, quit.
2 years ago
Anonymous
project more troony
2 years ago
Anonymous
It's even worse, because administrative decisions are increasingly being made by machines to the point where these companies might stop catering to people full stop.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>this attitude >on IQfy
You will have a nice day in your early 30s at LATEST due to being stuck at a burger flipping job, enslaved by your own low IQ.
You may seethe. I will not read your reply. But I'm sorry for you zoomanon.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Very few people get "stuck" in burger flipping jobs at 30, unless they're complete and utter morons.
And, your weak ass bait is moldy and stale.
2 years ago
Anonymous
You really think this world will stick together as AI literally usurp every scrap of work to the point of fricking the admin and distribution of produce fullstop?
Nice joke.
We have mere months left I think.
2 years ago
Anonymous
You won't see AI in your lifetime. Other people's great, great, great grandkids (because you sure as frick aren't breeding) might see the first baby steps towards it.
>We have mere months left I think.
Oh, you're larping.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>You won't see AI in your lifetime. >he only sees the direct sentient AI issue
We've had it since I was a kid and it's very rapidly developing now as AI begins to program itself now.
But it's the indirect programming of AI and the system as a whole, especially idea coordination that is doing the most damage there. Both humans and AI are now trapped in a horrible machine, anon.
The hive is bionic already.
2 years ago
Anonymous
There is no AI, chimp.
>When I was a kid
You still are a child, what are you talking about?
>doesn't consider that progressively things are getting worse and this subjective experience by each generation is rooted in some objective truth >is a homosexual
I've been feeling this way since 7 years old though because of 9/11.
It's objectively been getting worse with population, environment, economy, product quality, legality red tape and corruption ever since.
It's like being born in a fricking pit of quick sand and people have been like this since at least the 70s.
It's nothing to do with age with people from these generations all have had a grunge mentality with their world to begin with. That just means the environment is objectively wrong for them.
In fact it's arguably been like this since the 1800s and the romantic period, because before that there was absurd levels of optimism about progress in civilisation. We've just had it for a couple hundred years now. It's always been getting shitter since then though, like a dying old man. Rapid technology development in the 1800s was arguably a human reaction to that shittness.
As was computer innovation.
things really are getting worse and worse with each generation.
sure, we get new abilities and comforts and learn new ways in which to keep ourselves healthy and communicate over long distances and all that shit. great.
but with every passing generation, the most sociopathic members of our society find a way to re-engineer our basic societal constructs in a way to extract more from everyone else and enslave everyone just a bit more. it's a ratcheting effect. every few clicks aren't so bad but it's constant and, over time, unidirectional. sometimes we release a bit of tension with certain events but these buttholes are quick to scramble over it and re-tighten everything.
the first step to permanently releasing the tension in this system is to annihilate marketing and advertising as an acceptable practice. these are exactly the type of people who have fricked us - people only good at tricking other people, who have tricked us into thinking being tricked is good.
god damn, please, we need to do this before orbital billboards or neural interfaces are viable and widespread.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>the first step to permanently releasing the tension in this system is to annihilate marketing and advertising as an acceptable practice.
I go further, cut out the tongues of every 2nd and 3rd man, call them "less than a human" and then make them carry the "humans".
There, now you have solved a major problem in our society for "people".
You see where I am going with this btw.
Because this exact fricking thing happened after Waterloo.
No it's quite clear the problems accelerate particularly at the time banks raped this earth and pitchforked people into paying them off.
Before that, progress was great.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Also: >we need to do this before orbital billboards or neural interfaces are viable and widespread.
We already have those, they're called chemicals, sounds, pictures and ideology.
All neural interfaces are doing are making it a bit more silicon based and a bit different in structure.
Computers are not the problem, society is not entirely the problem either.
Oh it's scarier than that.
But you should be familiar with pic related, right?
>people get older and feel like things have turned to shit
My internet is 1000 times faster than it was 20 years ago and web pages take longer to load
2 years ago
Anonymous
>My internet is 1000 times faster than it was 20 years ago and web pages take longer to load
but we have animations now and cool buttons and colors and fonts and
What if things have been in decline for 100 years? Is that impossible?
2 years ago
Anonymous
How would you know, are you 100 years old?
2 years ago
Anonymous
The argument seems to be: Since 3 generations said it in a row, it must be impossible to be an actual decline, and it must just be something people say. My question is why is that impossible? It seems reasonable to me that the health of a nation and its people could be on a negative slope for a longish timeline, and that fact being reported isn't outlandish enough to dismiss it out of hand.
So using computers is just as fun for kids today as it was in the 90s? You're telling me that there are middle school kids who get home from school excited to tinker around with software and games and emulators on their pc? Because that's what it was like back then. I couldn't wait come home every afternoon to do that. Somehow I doubt this is what kids are doing today.
No because you can't afford to give users that much amount of freedom to thinker with their systems.
Imagine if somone accidentally broke something instead of having it break in 6 more months due to planned obsolescence... oh no how scary, we can't have that!
My nephew is exactly like that, he's all in, at 13. He's been limited in terms of what his parents get him, but they're talking about getting him a deskltop for his birthday, to tinker with. He and his friends are spending the summer learning how to set up and mod a minecraft server, and are having a blast doing it.
Your issue is that you think you're special and unique, and no way "zoomers", as you disdainfully sniff at them, couldn't possiblly be a neckbeard cool as you. That's why everyone laughs at you, behind your back.
yea it is. I remember spending a couple of hours trying to get my gamecube adapter working on mupen64plus, and sending my config to the dev for more compatibility. also remember trying to get my ps2 connected to custom servers using my desktop pc as a bridge for it, or just running evangelion on my dsi for 5 minutes to show my friends the stupidity in watching eva on a dsi.
>You're telling me that there are middle school kids who get home from school excited to tinker around with software and games and emulators on their pc?
Literally me in the late 90's and early 00's.
Because they are now made to appease to the minimum common denominator (i.e. <80IQ nigorillas). When you dumb everything down in the name of accessibility you end up with something that can't be excepcional in any other way than ease of access.
what was making it fun? doing the things you used to in order to have fun won't provide it now, it's just nostalgia
also, people actually use it to work, not for games now
>It's been dumbed down
"John von Neumann, when he first heard about FORTRAN in 1954, was unimpressed and asked "why would you want more than machine language?" One of von Neumann's students at Princeton recalled that graduate students were being used to hand assemble programs into binary for their early machine. This student took time out to build an assembler, but when von Neumann found out about it he was very angry, saying that it was a waste of a valuable scientific computing instrument to use it to do clerical work."
You "hobbyists" are part of the problem.
von Neumann was a hyper genius even among Manhattan Project scientists.
https://www.quora.com/How-did-John-von-Neumann-become-so-good-at-mathematics?share=1
>when von Neumann found out about it he was very angry, saying that it was a waste of a valuable scientific computing instrument to use it to do clerical work
based job creator computing daddy
>imagine web design in machine code. imagine making vidya in machine code
Things like (You) are wasting our oxygen, dumb Black person moron idiot stupid.
ok make skyrim in machine code then homosexual. put your money where your mouth is. you don't need any abstractions, right? kek. better yet just write all the ones and zeroes manually. machine language is bloat for pussies.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Wrong board
Video Games are bloated pussies
2 years ago
Anonymous
I don't play vidya. I'm just giving an example of something you can't make with machine code, moron. go back
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>you don't need any abstractions
machine code IS abstraction, binary IS abstraction, logic IS abstraction, Black person stupid moron
your mom is abstraction
If he coded it in machine language it would be so broken and buggy that people would think was was made by Bethesd........oh wait, nevermind.
kek
2 years ago
Anonymous
you can make in machine code, the point is that you don't need to make it because it's useless, underage Black person moron
2 years ago
Anonymous
then do it homosexual. you won't because it's like trying to dig a tunnel with a spoon. >underage
says the zoomer moron who thinks machine code is all you need in programming.
2 years ago
Anonymous
yeah, the only useful program is my fizzbuzz
do you need more than machine code to do computations or to exchange text? No you don't you only need more to play vidya and use bloated websites
2 years ago
Anonymous
autism detected
2 years ago
Anonymous
>you only need it to make stuff that's hard to make and complex
yes
2 years ago
Anonymous
>you only need it to make useless stuff that's hard to make and complex
Yes.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>says the zoomer moron
2 years ago
Anonymous
nothing existed in his time yet so there was no need for anything higher than machine language yet
2 years ago
Anonymous
>nothing existed in his time yet so there was no need for anything higher than machine language yet
yeah, he was luck to live in a world wihout the shit that we have now
2 years ago
Anonymous
yeah, the only useful program is my fizzbuzz
2 years ago
Anonymous
>you don't need any abstractions
machine code IS abstraction, binary IS abstraction, logic IS abstraction, Black person stupid moron
2 years ago
Anonymous
If he coded it in machine language it would be so broken and buggy that people would think was was made by Bethesd........oh wait, nevermind.
John von Neumann was an autists for sure, that's on the Bill Gates level of "you don't need more than 640K memory" myopia from within his autism bubble. His idiotic stance is based on his inability to see that processing power would scale over time, and his precious processing cycles would always be rare.
But I guess you thought you had a contrarain neckbeard point. But not really.
Neumann was a massive moron, don't get it twisted. That circle of math academics just sucked each of the others dicks a lot when they talked to the press.
i think you're just uninspired. if i wasn't so spent from work i'd be building an IoT network and wargaming red/blue teams in cyber attacks. i also want to build my own weather station and deploy a machine learning model (classification) to predict upcoming inclement weather. if i had more time i'd buy a smartphone and attempt to nuke it to its core function (call/text/internet) so i could build my own app ecosystem, for example, my own email server and client, different function apps, etc with the goal being to build a privacy-guaranteed smartphone.
there's so much you can do nowadays that was really difficult/impossible to do in a practical timeframe just a few years ago, but most modern developers build reduction instead of feature expansion / experimentation.
don't be gay. lots of hotties out there to bone and lots of money to be made and lots of fame to be gained and lots of fun to be had. blowing it all off completely is not only naive, it's cowardly. no matter how good things are, there will be bad things too, you gotta fight for the good things, that's what life has always been about, so stop crying about the bad and achieve the great
>lots of hotties out there to bone and lots of money to be made and lots of fame to be gained and lots of fun to be had.
The hotties all have veneareal diseases.
The money is fools gold in a ponzi scheme.
Celebs are fricking cancer.
Everything is torture.
What was your intention with this post?
To motivate me?
The only thing that motivates me lately is you all go to hell.
2 years ago
Anonymous
suck it up buttercup. and stop generalizing so much.
2 years ago
Anonymous
No frick you, this system needs to either die or Jesus needs to appear.
The only pleasure I get nowadays thanks to this shitfest is seeing optimists realise they live in hell. Why? Because they always make it worse.
All you can do with this piece of shit world is change the appearance and some minor functionality with it.
And it always ends up poop.
Why would you want to do all that work configuring your computer? We've already done the harder work for you, we don't want you breaking anything do we? 😉
>SLI
Pay a frickload for something that only gives you at MOST +50% (instead of actually getting 2x performance the way you'd expect from 2 cards) and requires specific driver frickery that is likely to blow up for each game. To say nothing for needing to power and cool these cards. >Sound hardware acceleration
Massive incompatibility if you didn't have the latest SoundBlaster and APIs that were extremely limited and proprietary. There were some cool things done with some particular engines or APIs but it was a major hassle. Not to mention IRQ port bullshit.
>SLI
Pay a frickload for something that only gives you at MOST +50% (instead of actually getting 2x performance the way you'd expect from 2 cards) and requires specific driver frickery that is likely to blow up for each game. To say nothing for needing to power and cool these cards. >Sound hardware acceleration
Massive incompatibility if you didn't have the latest SoundBlaster and APIs that were extremely limited and proprietary. There were some cool things done with some particular engines or APIs but it was a major hassle. Not to mention IRQ port bullshit.
>Pay a frickload for something that only gives you at MOST +50% (instead of actually getting 2x performance the way you'd expect from 2 cards)
Many games scale really well, I can get 90%+ usage on both GPUs with 190%+ the FPS compared to a single card.
>and requires specific driver frickery that is likely to blow up for each game. To say nothing for needing to power and cool these cards.
I'm just using 2013 XP drivers with 2008 hardware. Don't have to touch or configure anything for most games to scale and work really well and I've tested a lot. See:
Absolutely based taste.
Actual problem would be microstuttering if you don't set a FPS cap.
>Massive incompatibility if you didn't have the latest SoundBlaster and APIs that were extremely limited and proprietary. There were some cool things done with some particular engines or APIs but it was a major hassle. Not to mention IRQ port bullshit.
What are you talking about?
EAX is backwards compatible and most games are too. I have a 2003 SoundBlaster card and it plays 2005/2006 games with EAX perfectly fine, of course plays all the older games fine too. Not using modern drivers or patches, just drivers from release.
The only APIs that were popular were EAX and A2D, the latter less popular but all the games that supported it, supported EAX too. Anything with EAX supported DirectSound Hardware thru it, sure there's games that support it without EAX or A3D too.
"IRQ bullshit" would be pre-PnP days, which pre-date EAX (and A3D or DirectSound 3D in general) and hardware sound acceleration.
Is for me because I'm a toddler in programming and hopefully something relating to optics and maybe AI.
But as for the entirety of programs, the internet and general computer usage, it becomes a pain when you have to adapt your life around a machine. It was bad enough with cars, cooking appliances, the press, etc. Now our literal bodies are being exercised and trained in order to deal with this device we call a computer.
But at the same, developing steps where our literal bodies become the machine has me curious again. I'm sort of frustrated with my frailty in the flesh and so computers are offering this faintly drawn map to a new destination as it goes with my body.
I think the horror potential has me genuinely curious now.
It took 2 minutes to go through sound card config and you did it once for a game you spent the next year playing. People in those days didn't have ADHD where they had to play 200 different new games every month. We bought 2 new games every year and spent hundreds of hours thoroughly enjoying them.
>We bought 2 new games every year and spent hundreds of hours thoroughly enjoying them.
What? I got a dozen games every time I went to a scene or jungle/dnb party, every or every other month.
Not to mention all the sharing between friends or downloading off BBSes.
Having had access to things like autoconfig where shit "just worked" before PnP was even a thing on PCs was amazing.
Honestly, I have more fun playing the minmax game with DOS's config files and memory settings than playing the actual vidya from that era.
Who can load the most TSRs and still have more than 600K conventional memory left over?
Don't like it?
Leave.
I have to listen to your fricking rambling all the time on the radio, the press, social media. But you can't take me?
And you call me the problem?
I think it's obvious who the real problem is.
it's not an opinion and it's not a fact too because a large part of americans are Black folk
2 years ago
Anonymous
>shit opinion
i am objectively right
~80% of mutts are circumcised and they have voted a israelite into office back in 2016
plus, they donate a substantial portion of their gdp toward the israeli's iron dome >posts vtumor
i want to frick みこ so goddamn much HNGGGGGGGGG
It's 22 a clock here, anon.
はいはい
when's the next miko stream
2 years ago
Anonymous
You know what?
I think I'm more terrified by vtubers than sentient AI.
That shit is fricking weird on a level I've never been able to get used to.
It's almost worse than old school furries.
That doesn't mean I hate it though. Some of them are interesting talented at what they do.
But god dammit that shit is so hard to get used to for me.
I grew up in a time of metal and gore flix everywhere.
Now people watch vtubers for entertainment.
It's so fricking peculiar and weird.
Game streaming was one thing, but vtubers are just a different level of odd light entertainment on social media.
2 years ago
Anonymous
it's not that strange, it's just what happens when you combine people who waste too much time with anime and people who waste too much time with livestreams
2 years ago
Anonymous
I think some vtubers are genuinely talented as entertainers though, like some general streamers and speedrunning streamers (the latter baffle me because of the skill it takes to do what they do and then how they are able to pull of jokes and audience interaction on top of that - that's fricking impressive).
Vtubing reminds me of stage performances with puppets a bit though because it reads their actual movements and then on top of that they have to coordinate their character. But there's more because they interact far more with their audience and generally ad lib while they do this in a way that's really engaging (but still creepy to me a bit).
It's just odd. I can't merely condemn it. It's a strange unique art like puppeteering to me.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>reddit spacing >normalgay take
checks out
2 years ago
Anonymous
nice reddit spacing homosexual go back
nice spacing homosexual go back
choke on a wiener, zoomie
2 years ago
Anonymous
Meh, I think of them as digital muppets.
What's really disturbing is the amount of people willing to throw money at them and the amount of people that form parasocial relationships with them.
>Why am I a israelite for being nostalgic about computing from the past...?
Absolutely.
Just look at Stallman and his old timer mentality with the internet.
By the way, if he really did support vaccines then clearly he hasn't heard of stuxnet. That can't be right though, you'd think he'd heard about a bug that could frick with manufactured items that are id'd and then delivered to a particular id target right?
That's not what declining sales of media suggests.
There's a genuine lack of enthusiasm occurring because of over-saturation and likely something in all of our brains due to over-saturation.
I like over-saturation though, I'd prefer to fix the brain rather than the over-saturation.
Why? First for mere consuming reasons. But also due to the importance of media with developing epiphanies of ideas and stream of thoughts.
Stewing an idea while watching or reading something can let it flourish into something much better.
Even with pornography.
I'm amazed by the amount of solutions to weird tangents of thought I was pondering that I discovered through porn. Sometimes the dumbest thoughts can fruit weird fruit.
things will be better when we get more internet regulation. currently, the internet is being raped by companies preying on kids to turn them into future cashcows, and their gullible parents. videogames especially are extremely unregulated, as are software with microtransaction/subscription models (youtube, spotify)
this predatory business freedom wont last forever. at some point, kids are going to get their asses kicked off the internet, and contained within some sort of kids only, verification backed shit version of the internet where all they can do is do their homework, play a couple curated offline games, and have zero interpersonal communication options
for an example of this, see South Korea's league of legend account registration being tied to social security numbers. yes big brother sucks, but we're already living in that, and we'd all be way better off if big brother went ahead and pull the trigger on what makes the current day internet so garbage: children (and smartphones)
back in the good days, children would get immediately filtered because of their dogshit english, but they all have phones that make them seem somewhat literate now. we sadly dont have that luxury anymore
youre old and fried your dopamine receptors with drugs,porn,vidya,consooooming in general now youre all fricked up and "depressed" you could turn your life around any minute but you dont instead you browse IQfy because its the same for you as ciggs, watch youtubers or streamers or some shit because you have no friends etc
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>i dont like doing things if they become the norm
whatever makes you happy bro
So using computers is just as fun for kids today as it was in the 90s? You're telling me that there are middle school kids who get home from school excited to tinker around with software and games and emulators on their pc? Because that's what it was like back then. I couldn't wait come home every afternoon to do that. Somehow I doubt this is what kids are doing today.
Because the culture found in programs and media of today is not yours and it feels like a cheap imitation to you. You're also too old to have the patience to screw around like you used to when you were a kid. You're also more afraid of consequences of searching the internet too freely compared to when you were a kid and would just go wherever your curiosity took you.
It's pretty fun to watch my digital rights and privacy erode away while out of touch politicians make laws about things they don't actually understand. But that's just me.
Trips of truth, He is "Known for" more things than he even published.
In reality, he is known for
Theory of games and economic behavior
Mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics
A method for the numerical calculation of hydrodynamic shocks.
And his work on ring operators.
>ITT: Weak zoomers crying about muh depression because everything is shit
Grow some balls homosexuals and man up for once.
Nothing has changed and nothing will ever change in the greater sense, we always had to deal with bullshit, but the one thing that will always stay true is that you make your life what it currently is and what it will be in the future.
Go work on yourself instead of crying about society, even you can influence society to be more like you what you want it to be if you would do anything but cry all day.
Hackers like Karl Koch proved in the 80s that virtual freedom is a threat to the establishment.
That is why measures have been taken to take away this freedom from us.
However, there was a man in this world who did not want to let that happen.
Same as everywhere, hobbies because business venture targets.
The introduction of massive swaths of idiots to the internet via smartphones and the organizations that cater to them.
>The introduction of massive swaths of idiots to the internet via smartphones and the organizations that cater to them.
I prefer idiots and geniuses than the cattle in between.
The inbetween demographic drives me fricking nuts the most. I'd prefer to be surrounded by elves or orcs than the moronic ant like things we call "humans".
Although I will admit, I wish orcs were actually sexy. Not even all of them, just the females or something.
agile/scrum/kanban
Still better than my job that has been reduced to training illiterate Indians to code.
but they do scrum so well
Because nostalgia and getting old sucks.
Pretty much all of the games in that pic will run on Windows 10/11 (most without patches/tweaks). It would be different if they were MS-DOS titles that need DOSBox to run these days.
I still keep a Win98 laptop around for nostalgia purposes, but there's not much actual use for it.
That's part of the reason you don't see as many big "releases" like pic related anymore. The average normie doesn't get excited at all about software, and we only get a little bit excited. I work on an Agile project and it's pretty boring.
nice spacing homosexual go back
no him, but what's so bad about it anon?
They are, you just got old
> stop noticing obvious frick ups by jr devs
>You just got old
>No, it's objectively worse!
Generation before that:
>You just got old
>No, it's objectively worse!
Generation before that:
>You just got old
>No, it's objectively worse!
Not talking about computers specifically but this shit keeps happening, people get older and feel like things have turned to shit
Things actually are getting worse though. I can recognize that my parents and grandparents in the 60s had it even better than me, and the generation after me is going to have it even worse than me. If you can't see how much things are deteriorating with every new generation something is wrong with you.
Sure... And they'll keep saying it a thousand years from now
And it will still be true
>things were better when you had no running water or refrigeration just trust me dude
Unparalleled amounts of leisure time.
Complete autonomy, without responding to governments or any other institution.
Abundance of delicious natural food.
Yes, they lived better lives. There are advantages to the modern world, but "a better life" is not one of them
Oh, I see, you huffed the "old times that never happened" farts, lol.
Peope were grinding it out with the government on their backs, eating shit food back then, too, stupid. Stop think advertising illustrations Madison Avenue was using to sell a lifestyle that didn't exist to the working class.
I know you autists are fricking moronic, but do you have to dig new depths every fricking hour?
>staged pictures vs reality
>Things actually are getting worse though.
Subjective.
I like the tech/bioengineered horror we're in now.
It's fricking refreshing.
Horrifying, but at least it's not a mere rusty cage like the 70s to 10s. It's more of a corroded butchery now.
I just can't wait for the Otherworld to finally open and swallow us all whole. It's gonna be great.
>Black folk everywhere
>subjective
Depends, I like Caribbean vodou mamas and the west indies.
But I will admit Africa drains my soul with it's corrosive nature on our society. It's a fricking abyss dragging us all in now.
late stage capitalism
How is it worse for you? You have more opportunity, more access to pretty much anything, you have what to them would be a supercomputer in your pocket, and you're gonna sit there like a little b***h and cry about nostagia that isn't even reality?
LOL. You're such a fricking loser.
Those supercomputers are locked down to only run software that's allowed by the company who makes them. That kind of thing was unheard of in the 90s. Computing today is not very different to how it was in the 1960s with mainframes owned by IBM. We've regressed very far in the last 10 years.
Oh, look, someone who supeglued themselves to the pity pot, lol.
If life is so bad, quit.
project more troony
It's even worse, because administrative decisions are increasingly being made by machines to the point where these companies might stop catering to people full stop.
>this attitude
>on IQfy
You will have a nice day in your early 30s at LATEST due to being stuck at a burger flipping job, enslaved by your own low IQ.
You may seethe. I will not read your reply. But I'm sorry for you zoomanon.
Very few people get "stuck" in burger flipping jobs at 30, unless they're complete and utter morons.
And, your weak ass bait is moldy and stale.
You really think this world will stick together as AI literally usurp every scrap of work to the point of fricking the admin and distribution of produce fullstop?
Nice joke.
We have mere months left I think.
You won't see AI in your lifetime. Other people's great, great, great grandkids (because you sure as frick aren't breeding) might see the first baby steps towards it.
>We have mere months left I think.
Oh, you're larping.
>You won't see AI in your lifetime.
>he only sees the direct sentient AI issue
We've had it since I was a kid and it's very rapidly developing now as AI begins to program itself now.
But it's the indirect programming of AI and the system as a whole, especially idea coordination that is doing the most damage there. Both humans and AI are now trapped in a horrible machine, anon.
The hive is bionic already.
There is no AI, chimp.
>When I was a kid
You still are a child, what are you talking about?
>doesn't consider that progressively things are getting worse and this subjective experience by each generation is rooted in some objective truth
>is a homosexual
I've been feeling this way since 7 years old though because of 9/11.
It's objectively been getting worse with population, environment, economy, product quality, legality red tape and corruption ever since.
It's like being born in a fricking pit of quick sand and people have been like this since at least the 70s.
It's nothing to do with age with people from these generations all have had a grunge mentality with their world to begin with. That just means the environment is objectively wrong for them.
In fact it's arguably been like this since the 1800s and the romantic period, because before that there was absurd levels of optimism about progress in civilisation. We've just had it for a couple hundred years now. It's always been getting shitter since then though, like a dying old man. Rapid technology development in the 1800s was arguably a human reaction to that shittness.
As was computer innovation.
It's a runaway train.
>amerifart
fart
things really are getting worse and worse with each generation.
sure, we get new abilities and comforts and learn new ways in which to keep ourselves healthy and communicate over long distances and all that shit. great.
but with every passing generation, the most sociopathic members of our society find a way to re-engineer our basic societal constructs in a way to extract more from everyone else and enslave everyone just a bit more. it's a ratcheting effect. every few clicks aren't so bad but it's constant and, over time, unidirectional. sometimes we release a bit of tension with certain events but these buttholes are quick to scramble over it and re-tighten everything.
the first step to permanently releasing the tension in this system is to annihilate marketing and advertising as an acceptable practice. these are exactly the type of people who have fricked us - people only good at tricking other people, who have tricked us into thinking being tricked is good.
god damn, please, we need to do this before orbital billboards or neural interfaces are viable and widespread.
>the first step to permanently releasing the tension in this system is to annihilate marketing and advertising as an acceptable practice.
I go further, cut out the tongues of every 2nd and 3rd man, call them "less than a human" and then make them carry the "humans".
There, now you have solved a major problem in our society for "people".
You see where I am going with this btw.
Because this exact fricking thing happened after Waterloo.
No it's quite clear the problems accelerate particularly at the time banks raped this earth and pitchforked people into paying them off.
Before that, progress was great.
Also:
>we need to do this before orbital billboards or neural interfaces are viable and widespread.
We already have those, they're called chemicals, sounds, pictures and ideology.
All neural interfaces are doing are making it a bit more silicon based and a bit different in structure.
Computers are not the problem, society is not entirely the problem either.
Oh it's scarier than that.
But you should be familiar with pic related, right?
>people get older and feel like things have turned to shit
My internet is 1000 times faster than it was 20 years ago and web pages take longer to load
>My internet is 1000 times faster than it was 20 years ago and web pages take longer to load
but we have animations now and cool buttons and colors and fonts and
What if things have been in decline for 100 years? Is that impossible?
How would you know, are you 100 years old?
The argument seems to be: Since 3 generations said it in a row, it must be impossible to be an actual decline, and it must just be something people say. My question is why is that impossible? It seems reasonable to me that the health of a nation and its people could be on a negative slope for a longish timeline, and that fact being reported isn't outlandish enough to dismiss it out of hand.
So using computers is just as fun for kids today as it was in the 90s? You're telling me that there are middle school kids who get home from school excited to tinker around with software and games and emulators on their pc? Because that's what it was like back then. I couldn't wait come home every afternoon to do that. Somehow I doubt this is what kids are doing today.
>So using computers is just as fun for kids today as it was in the 90s
For the same type of kid, ye
There was a time when just seeing this splash screen gave you a sense of wonder and excitement. What's the equivalent of this for today's kids?
Probably some other logo or some simple shit like that that does nothing for us now and that we can't really understand and dismiss
Roblox, minecraft or fortnite right?
seeing this splash screen gives me a sense of browser starting slow, no excitement bro
seeing the funny people on IQfy saying no no words
No because you can't afford to give users that much amount of freedom to thinker with their systems.
Imagine if somone accidentally broke something instead of having it break in 6 more months due to planned obsolescence... oh no how scary, we can't have that!
My nephew is exactly like that, he's all in, at 13. He's been limited in terms of what his parents get him, but they're talking about getting him a deskltop for his birthday, to tinker with. He and his friends are spending the summer learning how to set up and mod a minecraft server, and are having a blast doing it.
Your issue is that you think you're special and unique, and no way "zoomers", as you disdainfully sniff at them, couldn't possiblly be a neckbeard cool as you. That's why everyone laughs at you, behind your back.
smart kid, bless him
yea it is. I remember spending a couple of hours trying to get my gamecube adapter working on mupen64plus, and sending my config to the dev for more compatibility. also remember trying to get my ps2 connected to custom servers using my desktop pc as a bridge for it, or just running evangelion on my dsi for 5 minutes to show my friends the stupidity in watching eva on a dsi.
>You're telling me that there are middle school kids who get home from school excited to tinker around with software and games and emulators on their pc?
Literally me in the late 90's and early 00's.
still fun but people share less --->problem = constantly angry noobs online
https://www.mediafire.com/file/kd83zwnn7abx4yy/Bill+Gates.exe/file
It's a limited AI software you can talk to him.
The truth is that (You) aren't fun anymore.
Trying out a new linux distro and the latest steam indie games isn't fun?
Because IQfy{nel} killed the triforce.
Because they are now made to appease to the minimum common denominator (i.e. <80IQ nigorillas). When you dumb everything down in the name of accessibility you end up with something that can't be excepcional in any other way than ease of access.
what was making it fun? doing the things you used to in order to have fun won't provide it now, it's just nostalgia
also, people actually use it to work, not for games now
>frogger
Unfathomably based
mostly cuz of smartphones
>It's been dumbed down
"John von Neumann, when he first heard about FORTRAN in 1954, was unimpressed and asked "why would you want more than machine language?" One of von Neumann's students at Princeton recalled that graduate students were being used to hand assemble programs into binary for their early machine. This student took time out to build an assembler, but when von Neumann found out about it he was very angry, saying that it was a waste of a valuable scientific computing instrument to use it to do clerical work."
You "hobbyists" are part of the problem.
von Neumann was a hyper genius even among Manhattan Project scientists.
https://www.quora.com/How-did-John-von-Neumann-become-so-good-at-mathematics?share=1
he was pro nuclear (bombs) too
>when von Neumann found out about it he was very angry, saying that it was a waste of a valuable scientific computing instrument to use it to do clerical work
based job creator computing daddy
that sounds like a really stupid take. imagine web design in machine code. imagine making vidya in machine code. just lol.
>imagine web design in machine code. imagine making vidya in machine code
Things like (You) are wasting our oxygen, dumb Black person moron idiot stupid.
ok make skyrim in machine code then homosexual. put your money where your mouth is. you don't need any abstractions, right? kek. better yet just write all the ones and zeroes manually. machine language is bloat for pussies.
Wrong board
Video Games are bloated pussies
I don't play vidya. I'm just giving an example of something you can't make with machine code, moron. go back
your mom is abstraction
kek
you can make in machine code, the point is that you don't need to make it because it's useless, underage Black person moron
then do it homosexual. you won't because it's like trying to dig a tunnel with a spoon.
>underage
says the zoomer moron who thinks machine code is all you need in programming.
do you need more than machine code to do computations or to exchange text? No you don't you only need more to play vidya and use bloated websites
autism detected
>you only need it to make stuff that's hard to make and complex
yes
>you only need it to make useless stuff that's hard to make and complex
Yes.
>says the zoomer moron
nothing existed in his time yet so there was no need for anything higher than machine language yet
>nothing existed in his time yet so there was no need for anything higher than machine language yet
yeah, he was luck to live in a world wihout the shit that we have now
yeah, the only useful program is my fizzbuzz
>you don't need any abstractions
machine code IS abstraction, binary IS abstraction, logic IS abstraction, Black person stupid moron
If he coded it in machine language it would be so broken and buggy that people would think was was made by Bethesd........oh wait, nevermind.
I wish I lived in the world where Machine Code was still the norm with Web Design and vidya just not existing at all
If clerical work was a waste of valuable machine time, what do you think webshit would be considered?
The world today would be so much better without “the web”
well then stop using it. what a bunch of edgy morons you all are holy shit. can't be a day over 15.
John von Neumann was an autists for sure, that's on the Bill Gates level of "you don't need more than 640K memory" myopia from within his autism bubble. His idiotic stance is based on his inability to see that processing power would scale over time, and his precious processing cycles would always be rare.
But I guess you thought you had a contrarain neckbeard point. But not really.
Neumann was a massive moron, don't get it twisted. That circle of math academics just sucked each of the others dicks a lot when they talked to the press.
i think you're just uninspired. if i wasn't so spent from work i'd be building an IoT network and wargaming red/blue teams in cyber attacks. i also want to build my own weather station and deploy a machine learning model (classification) to predict upcoming inclement weather. if i had more time i'd buy a smartphone and attempt to nuke it to its core function (call/text/internet) so i could build my own app ecosystem, for example, my own email server and client, different function apps, etc with the goal being to build a privacy-guaranteed smartphone.
there's so much you can do nowadays that was really difficult/impossible to do in a practical timeframe just a few years ago, but most modern developers build reduction instead of feature expansion / experimentation.
Frick work and frick surviving in this shitty hellhole
Yeah, let's shitpost and play vidya until death. Frick pissing, eating and sleep too.
don't be gay. lots of hotties out there to bone and lots of money to be made and lots of fame to be gained and lots of fun to be had. blowing it all off completely is not only naive, it's cowardly. no matter how good things are, there will be bad things too, you gotta fight for the good things, that's what life has always been about, so stop crying about the bad and achieve the great
>lots of hotties out there to bone and lots of money to be made and lots of fame to be gained and lots of fun to be had.
The hotties all have veneareal diseases.
The money is fools gold in a ponzi scheme.
Celebs are fricking cancer.
Everything is torture.
What was your intention with this post?
To motivate me?
The only thing that motivates me lately is you all go to hell.
suck it up buttercup. and stop generalizing so much.
No frick you, this system needs to either die or Jesus needs to appear.
The only pleasure I get nowadays thanks to this shitfest is seeing optimists realise they live in hell. Why? Because they always make it worse.
All you can do with this piece of shit world is change the appearance and some minor functionality with it.
And it always ends up poop.
Society was a fricking mistake.
boo hoo, sucks to be you
What's the point when every single one of those things has already been done? You're just reinventing the wheel for no reason.
yeah what's the point of doing anything if it's already been done. lol. what a terrible justification of your own inaction
>what are hobbies, personal interests, personal development, passions
i think you might be hollow inside
dilate pajeeta
What year was that sc taken?
Unironically install Gentoo.
Why would you want to do all that work configuring your computer? We've already done the harder work for you, we don't want you breaking anything do we? 😉
Remember when SLI was a viable option? When sound card had hardware acceleration that games actually supported?
>SLI
Pay a frickload for something that only gives you at MOST +50% (instead of actually getting 2x performance the way you'd expect from 2 cards) and requires specific driver frickery that is likely to blow up for each game. To say nothing for needing to power and cool these cards.
>Sound hardware acceleration
Massive incompatibility if you didn't have the latest SoundBlaster and APIs that were extremely limited and proprietary. There were some cool things done with some particular engines or APIs but it was a major hassle. Not to mention IRQ port bullshit.
Yep. Good times.
>Pay a frickload for something that only gives you at MOST +50% (instead of actually getting 2x performance the way you'd expect from 2 cards)
Many games scale really well, I can get 90%+ usage on both GPUs with 190%+ the FPS compared to a single card.
>and requires specific driver frickery that is likely to blow up for each game. To say nothing for needing to power and cool these cards.
I'm just using 2013 XP drivers with 2008 hardware. Don't have to touch or configure anything for most games to scale and work really well and I've tested a lot. See:
Actual problem would be microstuttering if you don't set a FPS cap.
>Massive incompatibility if you didn't have the latest SoundBlaster and APIs that were extremely limited and proprietary. There were some cool things done with some particular engines or APIs but it was a major hassle. Not to mention IRQ port bullshit.
What are you talking about?
EAX is backwards compatible and most games are too. I have a 2003 SoundBlaster card and it plays 2005/2006 games with EAX perfectly fine, of course plays all the older games fine too. Not using modern drivers or patches, just drivers from release.
The only APIs that were popular were EAX and A2D, the latter less popular but all the games that supported it, supported EAX too. Anything with EAX supported DirectSound Hardware thru it, sure there's games that support it without EAX or A3D too.
"IRQ bullshit" would be pre-PnP days, which pre-date EAX (and A3D or DirectSound 3D in general) and hardware sound acceleration.
You'll never see this much excitement for the release of an OS ever again.
Absolutely based taste.
yeah, fun...
http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/visual.htm
http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/controls.html
IQfy has the most enlightened posters on IQfy tbh
Is for me because I'm a toddler in programming and hopefully something relating to optics and maybe AI.
But as for the entirety of programs, the internet and general computer usage, it becomes a pain when you have to adapt your life around a machine. It was bad enough with cars, cooking appliances, the press, etc. Now our literal bodies are being exercised and trained in order to deal with this device we call a computer.
But at the same, developing steps where our literal bodies become the machine has me curious again. I'm sort of frustrated with my frailty in the flesh and so computers are offering this faintly drawn map to a new destination as it goes with my body.
I think the horror potential has me genuinely curious now.
I miss configuring hardware parameters for individual games. It's things like this that made computers soulful in the 90s.
No you don't.
Having had access to things like autoconfig where shit "just worked" before PnP was even a thing on PCs was amazing.
It took 2 minutes to go through sound card config and you did it once for a game you spent the next year playing. People in those days didn't have ADHD where they had to play 200 different new games every month. We bought 2 new games every year and spent hundreds of hours thoroughly enjoying them.
>We bought 2 new games every year and spent hundreds of hours thoroughly enjoying them.
What? I got a dozen games every time I went to a scene or jungle/dnb party, every or every other month.
Not to mention all the sharing between friends or downloading off BBSes.
Honestly, I have more fun playing the minmax game with DOS's config files and memory settings than playing the actual vidya from that era.
Who can load the most TSRs and still have more than 600K conventional memory left over?
>starts out as nice thread
>turns into /misc/ shitposting
>israelite get's called out
>oy vey
Don't like it?
Leave.
I have to listen to your fricking rambling all the time on the radio, the press, social media. But you can't take me?
And you call me the problem?
I think it's obvious who the real problem is.
It's morons like you.
Why am I a israelite for being nostalgic about computing from the past...?
all americans are israelites, period
>shit opinion
>posts vtumor
Many such cases.
it's not an opinion and it's not a fact too because a large part of americans are Black folk
>shit opinion
i am objectively right
~80% of mutts are circumcised and they have voted a israelite into office back in 2016
plus, they donate a substantial portion of their gdp toward the israeli's iron dome
>posts vtumor
i want to frick みこ so goddamn much HNGGGGGGGGG
はいはい
when's the next miko stream
You know what?
I think I'm more terrified by vtubers than sentient AI.
That shit is fricking weird on a level I've never been able to get used to.
It's almost worse than old school furries.
That doesn't mean I hate it though. Some of them are interesting talented at what they do.
But god dammit that shit is so hard to get used to for me.
I grew up in a time of metal and gore flix everywhere.
Now people watch vtubers for entertainment.
It's so fricking peculiar and weird.
Game streaming was one thing, but vtubers are just a different level of odd light entertainment on social media.
it's not that strange, it's just what happens when you combine people who waste too much time with anime and people who waste too much time with livestreams
I think some vtubers are genuinely talented as entertainers though, like some general streamers and speedrunning streamers (the latter baffle me because of the skill it takes to do what they do and then how they are able to pull of jokes and audience interaction on top of that - that's fricking impressive).
Vtubing reminds me of stage performances with puppets a bit though because it reads their actual movements and then on top of that they have to coordinate their character. But there's more because they interact far more with their audience and generally ad lib while they do this in a way that's really engaging (but still creepy to me a bit).
It's just odd. I can't merely condemn it. It's a strange unique art like puppeteering to me.
>reddit spacing
>normalgay take
checks out
choke on a wiener, zoomie
Meh, I think of them as digital muppets.
What's really disturbing is the amount of people willing to throw money at them and the amount of people that form parasocial relationships with them.
nice reddit spacing homosexual go back
Look again, moron.
It's 22 a clock here, anon.
>Why am I a israelite for being nostalgic about computing from the past...?
Absolutely.
Just look at Stallman and his old timer mentality with the internet.
By the way, if he really did support vaccines then clearly he hasn't heard of stuxnet. That can't be right though, you'd think he'd heard about a bug that could frick with manufactured items that are id'd and then delivered to a particular id target right?
Great skub thread guys, thanks
That is the most cursed image I've ever seen.
It's actually you who isn't fun anymore
DELET DIS
That's not what declining sales of media suggests.
There's a genuine lack of enthusiasm occurring because of over-saturation and likely something in all of our brains due to over-saturation.
I like over-saturation though, I'd prefer to fix the brain rather than the over-saturation.
Why? First for mere consuming reasons. But also due to the importance of media with developing epiphanies of ideas and stream of thoughts.
Stewing an idea while watching or reading something can let it flourish into something much better.
Even with pornography.
I'm amazed by the amount of solutions to weird tangents of thought I was pondering that I discovered through porn. Sometimes the dumbest thoughts can fruit weird fruit.
things will be better when we get more internet regulation. currently, the internet is being raped by companies preying on kids to turn them into future cashcows, and their gullible parents. videogames especially are extremely unregulated, as are software with microtransaction/subscription models (youtube, spotify)
this predatory business freedom wont last forever. at some point, kids are going to get their asses kicked off the internet, and contained within some sort of kids only, verification backed shit version of the internet where all they can do is do their homework, play a couple curated offline games, and have zero interpersonal communication options
for an example of this, see South Korea's league of legend account registration being tied to social security numbers. yes big brother sucks, but we're already living in that, and we'd all be way better off if big brother went ahead and pull the trigger on what makes the current day internet so garbage: children (and smartphones)
back in the good days, children would get immediately filtered because of their dogshit english, but they all have phones that make them seem somewhat literate now. we sadly dont have that luxury anymore
youre old and fried your dopamine receptors with drugs,porn,vidya,consooooming in general now youre all fricked up and "depressed" you could turn your life around any minute but you dont instead you browse IQfy because its the same for you as ciggs, watch youtubers or streamers or some shit because you have no friends etc
>i dont like doing things if they become the norm
whatever makes you happy bro
yes absolutely 100%
because everything good must come to an end
Close but you failed to realize that hobbyists are the true cattle
Because the culture found in programs and media of today is not yours and it feels like a cheap imitation to you. You're also too old to have the patience to screw around like you used to when you were a kid. You're also more afraid of consequences of searching the internet too freely compared to when you were a kid and would just go wherever your curiosity took you.
It's pretty fun to watch my digital rights and privacy erode away while out of touch politicians make laws about things they don't actually understand. But that's just me.
you grew up you uncreative moronic mongoloid
I switched to linux and I'm having a blast. Learning sh is fun, learning C is fun, learning J is fun, I'm having fun.
This, learning new things is fun, even King Terry talked about it.
/thread
What's exactly fun in your picture? I just see a bunch of games you could be literally playing today.
>Winzip
Lol
Trips of truth, He is "Known for" more things than he even published.
In reality, he is known for
Theory of games and economic behavior
Mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics
A method for the numerical calculation of hydrodynamic shocks.
And his work on ring operators.
they are fun
what are you talking about old man?
What do you mean "anymore"? They were never fun. You just thought they were fun because you only used them to play video games like in your picture.
Nothing's fun anymore
>ITT: Weak zoomers crying about muh depression because everything is shit
Grow some balls homosexuals and man up for once.
Nothing has changed and nothing will ever change in the greater sense, we always had to deal with bullshit, but the one thing that will always stay true is that you make your life what it currently is and what it will be in the future.
Go work on yourself instead of crying about society, even you can influence society to be more like you what you want it to be if you would do anything but cry all day.
You grew older OP
Hackers like Karl Koch proved in the 80s that virtual freedom is a threat to the establishment.
That is why measures have been taken to take away this freedom from us.
However, there was a man in this world who did not want to let that happen.
>However, there was a man in this world who did not want to let that happen.
Stallman is dead?
moron normies and big corporations